Claremont Review of Books

Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2004


From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: The War President

Correspondence

Essays

Gerard Alexander: The Myth of the Racist Republicans

The truth about the Southern Strategy.

William J. Bennett: The Democratic Party and the Politics of War

The demise of the happy warrior.

Terrence O. Moore: Heather's Compromise

Settling for Mr. Right Now.

Reviews of Books

Peter W. Schramm: One Last Card to Play

A review of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo

Steven F. Hayward: Correspondent-in-Chief

A review of Reagan: A Life in Letters, edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson

Annelise Anderson: Reagan in Sacramento

A review of Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power by Lou Cannon

William A. Rusher: Will They Ever Learn?

A review of Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, by Mona Charen

Jay Nordlinger: Infidelities

A review of Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach

Harry V. Jaffa: Wages of Sin

A review of The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective by Robert W. Fogel

Jonathan Marks: Saving "Souls"

A review of Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts on the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Stanley Crouch and Playthell Benjamin

John Derbyshire: A Dance to the (Disco) Music of Time

A review of Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton

Glen E. Thurow: Halfway to Renaissance

A review of History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga

John Zvesper: The Ties That Bind

A review of The American Founding and the Social Compact edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West

Colleen A. Sheehan: Madison Avenues

A review of James Madison, by Garry Wills
and James Madison and the Future of Limited Government, edited by John Samples

Scott H. Wolland: Pirate Patriot

A review of John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding: The German Question

A review of The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael Beschloss

Victor Davis Hanson: Footnotes to Greatness

A review of Patton: A Soldier's Life, by Stanley P. Hirshson

Sarah M. Bramwell: The Mother of All Anti-Feminists

A review of Feminist Fantasies by Phyllis Schlafly

Naomi Schaefer Riley: Pink-Slipped in Love

A review of Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Lance T. Izumi: Teach the Teachers, Test the Students

A review of There Are No Shortcuts, by Rafe Esquith
and The $100,000 Teacher, by Brian Crosby

Ward Connerly: Keys to the Kingdom

A review of The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College, by Jacques Steinberg

Thomas G. West: Nature and Happiness in Locke

A review of Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy by Michael P. Zuckert

Lance Robinson: The Constitutional Presidency

A review of Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers, by William Howard Taft

John B. Kienker: By Popular Demand

A review of Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the U.N. are Subverting America, by Laura Ingraham

Larry Arnhart: Darwinian Conservatism

A review of Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin;
Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us Human, by Matt Ridley;
Freedom Evolves, Daniel C. Dennett;
and Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society, by David Sloan Wilson

John G. West: Darwinian Relativism

A review of Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

Ralph McInerny: Commonsense Ethics

A review of What We Can't Not Know, A Guide, by J. Budziszewski

Robert Kraynak: Aquinas for the Democratic Age

A review of Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory, by John P. Hittinger

Michael M. Uhlmann: Great Learning Lightly Borne

A review of a A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good—Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan, edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt

Robert Royal: Old Poison, New Bottles

A review of The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice by Philip Jenkins

Scott Walter: The Strange Case of a Hillbilly Thomist

A review of Flannery O'Connor: A Life, by Jean W. Cash;
Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings, edited by Robert Ellsberg;
and Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism, by Henry T. Edmondson III

David Allen White: An Unweeded Garden

A review of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (5th edition), edited by David Bevington

Pierre Manent: A Reply to My Critics

Cum Dignitate Otium

Christopher Flannery: Divine Harmonies

Robert Reilly seeks music's natural law, in Surprised by Beauty.

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